Saturday, November 19, 2005

Carlucci's spellcheck

TrineDay surprised me Friday with an advance copy of the second volume of Peter Levenda's Sinister Forces, so I'm afraid I haven't had time for much more than having my mind blown.

I found Book One: "The Nine" a little halting in parts as Levenda began mapping his project, but Book Two: "A Warm Gun" finds him at full-stride, and there's some wonderfully compelling writing here about the occult/intelligence nexus of subjects such as the Manson Family, the People's Temple and Mark David Chapman. (And "the Nine" are back.) It's an exhilarating trip over some rarely-viewed Americana.

Just one little for instance.

In a post last June regarding the Symbionese Liberation Army I referred to a letter that then-Deputy Director of the CIA Frank Carlucci (later Director, and later still the Chairman of the Carlyle Group) had written Congressman Leo Ryan in response to Ryan's inquiries concerning the question of whether Donald DeFreeze - "Cinque" - had been subjected to mind control experiments while incarcerated at Vacaville State Prison.

Levenda reproduces Carlucci's letter to Ryan, dated "18 Oct 1978":

Dear Mr Ryan:

Thank you for your letter of 27 September to Admiral Turner requesting confirmation or denial of the fact of CIA experiments using prisoners at the California medical facility at Vacaville.

It is true that CIA sponsored testing, using volunteer inmates, was conducted at that facility. The project was completed in 1968....

You letter referred to Donald DeFreese [sic], known as CINQUE, and Clifford Jefferson, both of whom were inmates at Vacaville. In so far as our records reflect the names of the participants, there is nothing to indicate that either was in any way involved in the project.

Exactly one month after receiving Carlucci's non-denial denial, Ryan was dead on the tarmac in Guyana while investigating another mad experiment in mind control, the People's Temple.

I like how Levenda dismantles Carlucci's carefully constructed obfuscation, starting with the misspelling of DeFreeze's name:

[A]s any lawyer knows [misspelling] is a way to cover one's ass in the event that the denial is proved false. It means that there was no one at the facility being tested who bore the name "Donald DeFreese." The CIA has used this tactic before. Yet, let us allow that it was an honest mistake, a typographical error by a typist. Then there is the question of "our records."

In the first place, the key MK-ULTRA records, of which the vacaville experiments would have been a part, were all destroyed in 1973 (except for four boxes of accounting and bookkeeping records.) So, the CIA had no records of it all. In the second place, the letter is very careful to hedge even further: "In so far as our records reflect the names of the participants." Very clever, considering that in all likelihood no records existed and, anyway, the name of DeFreeze was misspelled.

Then there is the statement by future-CIA Director Carlucci that the project which had drawn Congressman Ryan's scrutiny "was completed in 1968." DeFreeze did not become an inmate at Vacaville until 1969. Thus, we are left with the distinct impression that the CIA had nothing to do with DeFreeze. But from 1970 on, DeFreeze was in twice-weekly contact with Colston Westbrook, former intelligence officer under AID cover, psychological warfare officer, and Vietnam veteran, who created and ran the Black Cultural Association at the facility. By running an operation at the prison at arm's length, the CIA had what is known as "plausible deniability." When DeFreeze was being sought by police during the SLA fiasco, he repeatedly warned that Westbrook was a CIA officer, but his warnings were taken as the ramblings of a deranged Communist and black revolutionary, and few paid his charges any attention.

"Mysterious synchronicities" is how author Dick Russell describes the subject of Levenda's work, and it's apt. Most of the mysteries, naturally enough for a study of evil, are quite horrible. And when horrible things fit together, and make eminent sense, I can't help but think of Charles Fort's remark: "If there is a universal mind, must it be sane?" Maybe not, but that shouldn't stop us. And Levenda, commendably, knows how to keep his head in the madhouse.

2140 Comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the review, Jeff. I was disappointed by "The Nine," as it veered all over the place and never delivered the goods. Because of that, I was not going to buy the other volumes. Now, I guess I have to!

I've just checking out my files on Carlucci. In the early 60's he played a central role in the overthrow and murder of Patrice Lumumba, but once he moved up in the world he was more involved in cover-ups on behalf of the Octopus. For example, in the late 70's, he was apparently involved in quashing an investigation into Shackley, Clines, and Secord's arms dealings in the Middle East, letting Shackley and Clines resign from the CIA instead of pursuing the matter.

In the 80's, Carlucci and Richard Armitage seem to have been at the heart of Iran-Contra -- which may explain why Carlucci warned Ross Perot off looking into Richard Armitage's connections in the 70's to Southeast Asian heroin smuggling. Carlucci was also responsible for bringing his protege Colin Powell in on helping cover up Iran-Contra.

In the 90's, Carlucci belonged to the American-Ukrainian Advisory Committee -- along with Henry Kissenger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and George Soros. And he's been on the board of Wackenhut.

Back in the 1970's, I had a brief reunion with a former friend who had just been released from prison. He had spent the decade in both state and federal prisons. I was shocked at his appearance, and he explained that he had been subjected to government medical experiments (especially Terminal Island, CA) while in prison. These tests were not voluntary. Being young and naive, I just couldn't believe, at that time, that such things could be going on. He, with a gallow's laugh, said most people wouldn't believe half of what went on in these facilities.

He died in 1980 at the age of 39. An autopsy revealed no known cause of death. Wish I had asked him more details. BTW, his father had been a high-ranking general in the army.

Anonymous 11:24,This means nothing without names. Give up the name of the general and his son, so investigators and researchers can get to the bottom of this. The more light and outrage on these crimes, the better. No one knows who you are, so come on! Plus these people have come into contact with at least a hundred other people in their life and ops, so who's to say who said what. This shit is going on RIGHT NOW in psychiatric institutions, hospitals, veterans hospitals and prisons! Don't think for a minute they stopped MK anything, same goes with COINTELPRO.

One of my research areas is the secret societies at Ivy League Institutions (which actually begin recruiting in WASPy prep schools like Groton, Andover, Exeter, etc.)

Since many of these socieites are secret, membership is often unknown -- but the intel and shadow government recruits in these as part of their old boy network for global intel ops , blackops, countintelligence and dirty tricks where secrecy is required, deniability and well known secret keepers and long term moles can be utilized.

Carlucci comes, to the best of my recollection, from the Princeton school which includes Rumsfeld (I believe they were actually on the wrestling team together there) and which was the center for intel ops on a contract basis for the old boys like Allen Dulles (who actually became a contract agent for the CIA in the Princeton group after the Warren Commission fix and getting fired by JFK (and supposaedly behind JFK's back was he hired again to be a committee member for blackops analysis and planning).

Another figure from this era (and who used to brag about his friendship with Rummie) is Ralph Nader.

The tea clubs at Princeton are as dangerous and sick and perverted as Skull and Bones and its sister scientific society Book and Snake at Yale (which has Woodward as a member still). I forget the Harvard intel one --- but they all cooperate and are part of the "octopi" that is running the Big Show of death and torture going back to the days of Hitler.

In the mid-70's I read a series of articles by Mae Brussell in an alternative newspapaper published in the Bay area. (May have been The Realist). Though she has died, her work has been preserved on www.maebrussell.com, and if you click on Articles you will find a series about The SLA and Cinque. She claimed that the SLA was a CIA or other Black Ops front and that Cinque was brainwashed at Vacaville. She connected many other dots as well, long before other researchers and investigators were at that time. I was terrified after reading those articles. But I recommend them.

Col Quisp said...Thanks for the review, Jeff. I was disappointed by "The Nine," as it veered all over the place and never delivered the goods. Because of that, I was not going to buy the other volumes. Now, I guess I have to!

Howdy, Yes, you are right, I hope that readers may remember that Sinister Forces was written as one book. A 25 year project of Mr. Levenda. A huge heavy tome, daunting to both reader and publisher.

Truly the first book sets the stage, the second gives you more of the action and sets up for the concluding book, SF.3, The Manson Secret, which literally "blows your mind." Inviting the reader into new understandings and fields of action.

I am sorry that such is thus, but it seems that truth that is suppressed by New York's censorship,oozes around that roadblock and now comes from cottage computer-revolution publishers, such as us at TrineDay.

I wish we could have put it out all at once, but we couldn't, especially with the Special Forces Association paying the expenses of a harassing lawsuit against us.

The current state of publishing is amazing. Many top name authors cannot get their manuscripts printed on certain subjects.

Well, there are other things going on, suffice for me to say. Sinister Forces is one book presented in three volumes. And thank-you Jeff for your favourable mentions of our upcoming book. And Jeff, your commentaries on subjects not easy to write about are very fine, A must read for anyone researching these "intriguing" subjects.

The "intelligence" groups, all "privatized" that are now profiting handsomely in stage managing and creating the circumstances, propaganda-wise and otherwise, for wars started on false information are actually granting interviews these days, meet the Rendon Group, the head man making millions considers himself quite the patriot, and his final line in the story is quite chilling "We lost control of the context," Rendon warned. "That has to be fixed for the next war." That will be the one with the draft in force: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/8798997?rnd=1132425200736&has-player=true

Oh dear oh dear - the WMD lies propagated by Rendon found front page news on the New York Times in a piece by Judith Miller, the trusted confidente of the hapless Dr David Kelly. To whom he comlained in what was either his last or one of his last emails of "dark actors playing games".

There is much talk on this blog of connecting the the dots - they do connect, all the time; it just takes much time to connect.

Here's to all the patient and conscientious researchers out there and to brave souls like Kris of TrineDay. We are learning a bit more about these "dark actors" in these parts of the web and that can't be a bad thing.

"Former members of a military intelligence team deployed to Iraq at the outset of the Iraq invasion referred to their job as a 'janitorial operation for the first President Bush and Carlyle.' They were referring to the war profiteering firm, on whose international board George H. W. Bush sits and which was headed by Frank Carlucci, the Defense Secretary (and Princeton roommate of Donald Rumsfeld, who was Reagan's special envoy to Saddam Hussein in 1984) who served as the head of the Pentagon when the shipments to Iraq of VX nerve gas, other weapons of mass destruction, and conventional weapons were first authorized by the Reagan administration in 1988. The military intelligence personnel claimed that at the time, Carlyle was among the largest exporters of such weapons by the United States and that bills of lading and other documents presented to them at the Bilad weapons depot in Iraq point to pass through companies affiliated with Carlyle being involved in the shipments to Iraq. The evidence is contained in digital photographs and videos taken of canisters and documents by the U.S. military team and which are now in the secured possession of the 223rd Military Intelligence Battalion in San Francisco."

Speaking of the library, I was in my local city library not long ago (Sacramento, Central branch) and I found a first-person memoir by one of the SLA members.

Wouldn't you know it, the author was a former Vietnam vet with unconventional warfare expertise, "disgruntled" and, by his account, casting about for something to do with the rest of his life as an encore...and lo and behold, he makes the acquaintance of the local cell nucleus of the SLA.

Fascinating reading.

So was another book I read only a few months ago: People's Temple, People's Tomb, an "insider" account of Jonestown that, judging by the publication date, was most probably the very first book published and available on the shelves on the topic of Jim Jones, the People's Temple, and Jonestown, in the wake of the bloody demise of the cult. Author: Phil Kerns (the former PT member). Co-author (although this is not mentioned in the Amazon listing, or many other entries brought up by my search): Doug Wead.

Incidentally, one of the allegations contained within the pages of People's Temple, Peoples Tomb was that Jim Jones had links to Fidel Castro and the Soviet KGB. This allegation isn't made explicitly, or backed up with specific evidence. It's more along the lines of what might be termed a veiled insinuation.

I think you've missed the mark slightly with the critique of the secret societies in the Ivy League.

It's not so much that these lads become members of secret societies - it is the fact that they do stuff (under the influence of drugs and alcohol) that enable them to be blackmailed for the rest of their lives (and not necessarily anything to do with hteir memberships).

The blackmail is not entirely unpleasant, since by becoming the pawns of their various Overseers they are placed in positions of significant power and influence (the better to further someone else's aims - the specific nature of which they may be unaware).

In short, it's the same methodology as applied to Philby, Buregess, McLean, and Blunt - homosexual liaison that is then captured in a series of frank 'happy snaps' which then haunt the fellow for the rest of his career and make him utterly, utterly malleable.

You will note that the Bloomsbury clique (a 'private' society rather than a Secret society) was not infiltrated by the Soviets to anywhere near the extent of PBMB and the 'Apostles'; that's because for the Bloomsbury clique the homosexuality was a pretty 'open secret' (although Turing paid with his life, obviously, which encouraged Keynes to get married)... whereas the Apostles retained High-Anglican pretensions to heterosexuality - and were therefore ashamed of their behaviour (besides which ,they all wanted to become Civil Servants - another area where homosexual clique-ery was rampant but was still considered something to be ashamed of).

George W Bush was a cheerleader, a druggie and a drunk; his 'faux macho' behaviour is the most obvious compensating mechanism I've ever seen. (That is, he is a self-repressed bisexual [and that's assuming he's actually repressed and not just publicly cautious])

What odds are there that somewhere there are a horde of photographs of him in compromising positions? Ditto Tony Blair - a more obvious 'fag hag' than Cherie I have never seen.

I say this as a non-homophobe - I'm not remotely concerned about what anybody does in their own bedroom... however when powerful men have a past of which they're ashamed, the prospect for bad policy expands without bound.

To sum up: it's not the secret societies per se; it's the opportunities for blackmail that arise during an impressionale young man's heavy-drinking/drug-taking/sexually-experimental University days.

Anonymous One,GT,you mean the 5 different sperm samples from Gary Condant's crib weren't his? Folks this place is a pit of blood sucken snakes,and I mean the whole world.These assholes are running wide open rigth now,and it don't look good for anyone.I just watched old GW in China this morn,he told them he is going to rid the world of "terrerism",I think there was blood driping out one side of his mouth as he gave his big Texas smile,Later.

DreamsEnd, sorry, there are just a few advance proofs left and they are already spoken for. The book should be out in stores the second week of December. It carries the story along. We will be putting some of it up soon at www.sinisterforces.info

GT, I appreciate your viewpoint and do believe there is some validity to it, but there are more than blackmail factors as the raison d'être of the secret society system, Masons included. Any pyramidal hierarchical structured organization may be used for compromise and for overt and covert control reasons. Now I am not anti-Mason, or anti-fellowship, or anti-mystical understandings. I do find that the secrecy used by the organizations is not beneficial for our republic, which functions best with transparency and the checks and balances from open discussion.

There is more than some "dialectic" of black and white Masons. It is a fact that these organizations are used to hide agendas and to do "duty." The "good" Masonic organization was used for the final push to put in our modern education-control-system.

Suffice to say, there are those that do believe in the agendas of privilege, power and elitism propagated by Bones, et al.

"To sum up: it's not the secret societies per se; it's the opportunities for blackmail that arise during an impressionale young man's heavy-drinking/drug-taking/sexually-experimental University days."

My Response: It is in fact the secret societies per se in my opinion. The initians of these organizations make secrecy about ones sexual experiences etc. part of the hold they have on people (now more so I think the blackmailing is in the business of pedophilia and not homosexuality to a large extent). But the fact is that criminal conduct, whether treason, pedophilia, assassination, disruption of democracies, fascism, etc. are exactly the business of these organizations. THAT is what they are in and of themselves (per se).

Thast does not mean every single member is compromised (whiule they may well be) but it means that the organizations are instruments of terror and fascism.

Blackmail is of course part of the modus operandi for those who want to keep "indiscreet" matters private for political or personal reasons.

But to give the organizations a "pass" as innocuous or not evilly intended in and of themselves is a misreading oif the facts (or an impression that many in these organizations would very much like to promote (like Kerry for example)

The cachet of such stench is to instill fear, but the PR campaign includes the myth that the organizations are just frat clubs. They are not. They are fascist criminal organizations in large part and are intended that way. Maybe not everyone in them gets the picture or is ever tapped for the wet work etc., but the organizations exist to recruit for these fascist purposes.

Well, Banned, I would sometimes have to argue that the mind of "God" (or the universal mind) is pure love, and hence not insane.

The Bible is a book written by men to tell stories, history, and recount some myths andf legends (as well as in many instances, like most writers, to promote an agenda).

Human history has its craziness as well as its beauty and perfectly sublime parts, just like the Bible.

From a metaphysical perspective, all that we expereince as humans in this plane of reality (and perhaps as animals or other creatures too) is a means of exploring the universal mind: that all this is a way of bringing us closer to the divine and to divine love.

If the soul is immortal (as many spiritual traditions teach) then the suffering along the way, meant to bring us closer to and have a greater communion with the Creator - to reach enlightenment, Nirvana, Samadhi, "God-realization" or Buddhahood etc. --- all of it is for the good. The suffering is illusion as is the bliss in this material plane. It is all temporal and non-lasting (impermanent) and attachment to such things brings suffering.

I happen to believe that this way of looking at our lives and at Craetion is not crazy and that there is a divine master plan borne of love for the Universe and for creation.

Temporal human suffering and the inhumanity of men (generally men) in the great experience we are going through is our way of learning to appreciate the best and the highest good: Love of humanity, of Creation, of the Earth and of each other.

Surely the Creator has a sense of humor because a lot of what happens here is damn funny -- but the Creator also has a sense of the depth of the infinite: darkness and light, joy and suffering, love and hate, male and female in all the infinite varieties.

I guess what I am saying is that WE are God, the Universe is God, ALL is God --- and this experience is for us to experience in all its multiplicity.

It may seem crazy to a human mind; but to a divine mind it may be the only way for us,as souls, to grow, learn and become one with what we truly are: a drop in the divine ocean of Love.

THAT is what the f*cking fascists will NEVER understand. They see ONLY the material and piss in the milk of spirituality and the Spirit, without even realizing how f*cked up they are.

Elite fraternities in elite universities, replete with all their hereditary money and equally hereditary memberships.

What's truly remarkable is that such anachronisms should even be allowed to exist in any form. To find them featured in the halls of "higher education" shows just the kind of lipservice that genuine ideals about fairness and equality are paid.

These are the old-boy/new-boy networks passed down from genertion to generation and cemented together by the occasional marriage if need be to continue to hold an equally privleged grip on power even in this day in age.

The "blue-bloods" are apparently alive and well and the American Revolution took no time at all to fall prey to Jefferson and Franklin's very worst fears about precisely that possibility.

All that has and is being done is so that some of those elitists, whether they are deserving of it or not, will along with their heirs, continue to live in the style to which they've become accustomed. Perhaps even improve upon it.

Being born in better circumstances being the direct basis for both believing that they are in fact better and taking any steps they feel necessary to protect their supposed "divine right" to it.

The worst of it is that most ordinary people actually believe these people are their betters. Success is only measured in dollars in the US. and breaking the law is really only illegal if you happen to get caught doing it.

It takes a certain kind of superior cunning and willfullness to deliberately gain the first and avoid the second simultaneously.

The great Bill Gates used a little chicanery to bilk IBM out the singlemost important feature of the work they paid him to do. The breach of a basic understanding that is intrinsic to all sub-contracted work in virtually every field. Gates is only "great" because he happened to create a little legal technicality of his own to get away with that.

Now no truly conscientious person would ever have thought of, let alone dared such a feat, and certainly no one will ever have any opportunity to dare it again on account of it. But Gates has earned his way into the ranks of the high and mighty and plays their game accordingly. He has all the "right stuff" as they say.

Gates is in the same tradition as the Rockefellers, Carnegies, and others whose methods of acquiring their immense fortunes were all subsequently made illegal after the damage was done. Their elite status confirmed and protected by allowing them to keep what would forever more be "ill gotten gains" to anyone else.

Tht is the nature of the power behind the power that must ultimately be faced.